Monthly Archives: December 2009

Affectivity, Action, Electricity

‘Touching is an important means for information, exchange and communication. It is a form of communication that is very important for living and surviving. Touching is essential in our life..’ – Touching.. ‘Knowledge is a tool of action. Its function is to advise man how to proceed in his endeavor to remove uneasiness..’ – Ludwig

To Reflect

‘Economics opened to human science a domain previously inaccessible and never thought of.’ – Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (Context) ‘..the Austrians recognize that the relationship between cause and effect is not a quantitative relationship.’ – Roger Garrison (Context) ‘..a readier understanding and that the “language” of means and ends will come to be recognized as

‘..the role of electricity in space..’

‘From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to planets and, on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological organisms. There are no isolated islands in an electric universe.’ – David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill ‘Today,

‘..the progress of science is determined by free inquiry..’

‘ “Science” is not, as some people imagine, memorizing a list of facts (such as the names of the planets). Nor is the progress of science determined by laboratory experiments. This is because, at the edge of our knowledge, accepted laboratory experiments don’t exist and, in certain fields, laboratory experiments might not even be possible.

‘..individual freedom and responsibility.’

‘[Henry Hazlitt] is primarily an economist, a student of human action. As a result, he is a strong advocate of individual freedom and responsibility. He has long been a close personal friend and associate of Professor Ludwig von Mises, the “dean” of free market economics, to whom he acknowledges a great intellectual indebtedness.’ – Bettina